Wagon end-gate.



G. C MQOOLLY.

WAGON END GATE.

APPLICATION YILED MBA, 9711. 7

Patented 1060.26, 1911.

Inventor Attorneys Wi nesses CHARLES C. MCQOLLY, OI? ROCKY FORD, OIrO RAIDO.

WAGON END-GATE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 4, 1911. Serial No. 606,595.

Patented Dec. 26, 1911.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. MC'

the details of construction hereinafter de-' scribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the inven tion.

in the drawings,-Figure 1 is a side elevation, the end gate being let down for use as a shoveling board; Fig. 2 is a frog mental horizontal. section through one end of a side board and its attendant parts;

and Fig. 3 is a plan of one of the guides, the view being diagrammatic in nature.

In the drawings, the bottom of a wagon box is shown, and denoted generally by the numeral 1.

The numeral 2 indicates the side boards of the wagon box. the numeral 3 the sill. and the numeral 4 the cleats upon the adjacent inner faces of the side boards 2, be-

tween, which cleats the end board is retained, in the common and well known manner.

The combined end gate and shoveling board denoted generally by the numeral 7.

is equipped with sides 9 which serve to prevent the grain from sliding laterally off the shoveling board, when the same is positioned as shown in Fig. 1. The sides 9 are notched as shown at 10. adiacent their inner ends. these notches 10 being adapted to receive the outstanding extremities of the sill 3. a pivo al mounting for the shoveling board being thus effected. as Fig. 1 will render evident. Straps extend across the sides 9 as denoted by the numeral 12, and as seen most clearly in Fig. 1. These straps 12 serve to reinforce the upstanding sides 9 of the shoveling board.

The invention further includes a pair of angle members 33, one flange of each of the angle members 33 overlapping the inner faces of the cleats 4, as shown at 34.

The angle member 33 is extended across the edges of the cleats 4 and across the edges of the side boards 2, as shown at 35, the

other flange 36 of each angle member 33 overlapping the side boards 2 upon the outside of the wagon box. To the flanges 34, upright tongues 37 are secured, these tongues registering slidably between the.

side boards 2 of the wagon box, these guides 38 and 39 being carried through the flanges 34 and 36 of the angle members 33. behind the portion 35 of the said angle members, so that the guides, at their inner ends overlap the flanges 34. as shown at 41.

The invention further includes a pair of operating levers 44, curved adjacent one end, for convenient manipulation, as shown at 45. These operating levers 44 are pivotally connected with the guides 39, in, a manner to be described hereinafter. To the intermediate portions of the operating levers 44. links 46 are pivoted as shown at 47, the outer ends of the links 46 being pivotallv connected with the sides 9 of the board 7. When, as shown in Fig. 1, the operating levers 44 and the links 46 are in alinement. the shoveling board will be suspended in inclined position. Stops 4-8 outstanding from the operating levers 44, engage the upper edges of the links. thus to maintain the links and the levers in alinement. as seen in Fig. 1.

Noting Fig. l. the curved ends 45 of the operating levers 44 may be seized. the free ends of the operating levers swinging unwardlv. in the direction of the arrow X. and revolving around the members 39 "as a. center, until the curved ends 45 of operating levers are in the de ending position. the operating levers 44 and the links 46 being vertically alined. the lower extremities of the lovers 44 abutting against the rear faces of the outstanding ends of the sill 3.

The manner in which the operating levers 44 are pivotally connected with the memplate provided with bers 39'is as follows. It will be noted that the members 39 are bent, as shown at 5,0. In each of the members 39 there is a longitudinally disposed slot, consisting of parallel portions 5].. and 52, connected by a rectangularly disposed portion 53. The ortion 51 of'the slot is extended into the ent section 50. Each operating lever 44 is supplied with an outstanding stud 54, equipped with a head 55, adapted to engage the inner face of the member 39, the stud 54 moving pivotally in the slot. This stud 54 is elliptical in transverse section. The width'of the portions 51 and 52 of the slot is substantially equal to the major axis of the cross sectional ellipse of the stud 54, while the width of the transversely disposed portion 53 of the slot is approximately equal to the minor axis of the cross sectional ellipse of the stud.

By referring to Fig. 3, it will be seen that when the operating lever 44 is elevated into a horizontal position, the stud 54 will be rotated until its minor axis is at right angles to the direction in which the portion 53 of the slot extends. Under such circumstances, the stud may be removed from the slot, the stud traversing in order, the portions 52, 53 and 51 of the slot, and passing outwardly. through the slot in the 39. When the operating levers 44 are in the inclined positions shown in Fig. 4, the levers cannot be accidentally displaced from the guides 39, a separation of the levers from the guides being possible only when the levers 44 are horizontally disposed.

The shoveling board may readily be removed from the angle members 33, by elevating the operating levers 44 into a horizontal position and then pushing them rearwardly, as hereinbefore described.

The angle members 33 may readily be slid upwardly for removal, and in such case the wagon box will be adapted to receive an end gate or tail board of the common construction; it being obvious from the foregoing. that no alteration of the wagon box, .as commonly constructed, is

necessary in order to receive the combined.

end gate and described.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is r 1. In a device of the class described, a a slot consisting of angularly disposed parts, one of which parts is wider than the other; and a susshoveling board above bent portion 50 of the memberjacent one end of the narrower portion of the slot, through which opening the stud, may pass, to separate the suspension member from the plate, the stud having a projection adapted to engage behind the plate.

2. In a device of the class described, a plate provided with a slot consisting of end portions and an angularly disposed inter-- mediate portion, the end portions of the slot being of a common width, and the intermediate portion of the slot being narrower than the end portions, one end portion of the slot having a transverse enlargement, and the plate being curved adjacent said enlargement; and a suspension member having a stud of unequal transverse dimensions, adapted to move in the slots, the major dimensions of the stud being substantially equal to the width of the wider portions of the slot, and the minor dimension of the stud being substantially equal to the width of the intermediate portion stud being provided with a projection adapted to engage behind the plate, the projection being movable through the enlargeof the slot; the

ment, to permit a separation of the suspension member from the plate.

3. In a device of the class described, a supporting structure; plates secured thereto and provided with slots consisting of parallelparts and a rectangularly disposed part of less width than the parallel parts; an

end gate; and a foldable connection between the. end gate, and the supporting structure, said connection being provided with elliptical studs movable in the slots, the major axis of the studs being substantially equal to the width of the parallel ortions of the slots, and the minor axis 0 the studs being substantially equal to the width of the rectangularly disposed portions of the slots.

In testimony that claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES MoOOLLY.

Witnesses: I v CHARLES E. POND, JosIAH MCCQLLY. 

